Shock and Awe – Tour

Tour Promo GIF, 2016 – #shockandawebooktour

After the release of Shock and Awe (First Edition), in 2015, a performance and social gathering quickly emerged. Ultimately, between 2015-2017, the Shock and Awe Tour traveled to 100 Universities, Museums, Galleries, and Public Spaces across 14 countries.

Shock and Awe – performance at the San Francisco Public Library, 12/14/16

"The Shock and Awe Tour returns the journal to the people and places depicted, bringing author, subject, and viewer into an exploration of the total meaning of the work. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the project, the performance of Shock and Awe is equal parts story-telling, show-and-tell, and group discussion.

"Borrowing from American folk traditions, Shock and Awe is a performance of first-person authorship. The project unfolds in real-time, foregrounding the fraught transformation of memory into document, and the affect of trauma on personal and national myth making. Shock and Awe provides a vehicle to revisit the period since 2001 – it is both a primer on recent history, and a call to gather and challenge the emergence of fascist tendencies across the Western World."